Wstyd a władza (paradygmatów)

Abstract

In a so to speak socio-biological sub-paradigm, a body is a vehicle of biological and cultural replicators, in a Foucault’s sub-paradigm of postmodernist humanistic sciences, a body is the effect and subject of problematisation, a self-problematisation and problematicised object/subject, revealing itself from a holistic and historically discontinuous “discursive fact” of power/knowledge. Faucault’s “discursive body” is a real historical figure and so is shame co-creating it — one of the norms (each time dictated by power) determining historical frames of this discourse. A socio-biological “replicatorable body” constitutes a proved effect of the natural choice, and so are its emotional reactions and ethical practices (shame included).